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  2020

  VART 3030 Fordam University, email of assignment prompt

  Email from Casey Ruble, an instructor at Fordham University, VART 3030. Asked students to "familiarize themself with the archive and begin posting images etc. of their observances of the world around them." Students submitted to archive during the Spring semester 2020
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  2020-03-24

  Signs From Around: #13, Vancouver, Canada

  "Signs From Around: #13, Vancouver, Canada" is part of a series exploring the signage surrounding COVID-19 from different parts of the world. Businesses try to prevent the virus spreading by not accepting paper currency transferred hand to hand.
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  2020-04-22

  Save the USPS, United States Postal Service

  The graphic illustration depicts the struggle of the US Postal system especially during the pandemic, they are loosing money significantly.
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  2020-01-05

  Elfriede_s Covid themes sticker designs

  Elfriede_s created a collaborative sticker set that represents aspects of quarantine and the pandemic. It potrays a spring flower wearing a face mask, a cactus in his pot lables sweet home, 'a dose of reality' cocktail and so. one
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  2020-05-01

  Notes From an Essential Worker

  The COVID-19 virus disrupts life, particularly our relationships with those we love. But, relationships are flexible and adapt to circumstance. My brother's economics professor has not posted his final grade, yet. Remote learning creates many opportunities for students to violate the academic integrity policies of their schools, and my brother's class was no exception. Due to several perceived violations on the final exam, his professor delayed the posting of all final grades. In other words, although he did not cheat, he had to sweat it out with everyone else. My mother knew he was worried and wanted to leave him with some encouragement in the morning, so she left this note on his laptop before she left for work. We don't see her in the morning anymore, but my mom is always there for us. #FordhamUniversity #VART3030
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  2020-05-11

  Noella Flyer #4

  This is part of a series involving my father's small business in Avon, Connecticut. They have recently been allowed to reopen, and this is a flyer that explains new safety guidelines and procedures within the store, during the pandemic.
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  04/09/2020

  Navigating Pandemic Conspiracies: Addressing Conspiracy Existence

  This project aims to document all of the different conspiracies and their growth and treatment by the media throughout the pandemic. This is the headline of an article acknowledging the existence of conspiracies that have and will continue to start arising due to the pandemic.
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  2020-05-08

  Treatment of Essential Workers: Mask Protest and Response

  This project aims to document the treatment and reactions to the treatment of the essential workers during this pandemic. This is the headline of an article describing the reaction some customers wanting to protest and boycott Costco after their implementation of making it necessary to wear a mask. Many people have come to the defense of Costco saying that they support this act
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  2020-04-06

  Treatment of Essential Workers: Proposed Student Loan Bill

  This project aims to document the treatment and reactions to the treatment of the essential workers during this pandemic. This is the headline of an article describing A new proposed bill in which healthcare workers would have their student loans forgiven
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  05/04/2020

  Treatment of Essential Workers: Amazon VP Resigns and Makes Statement about Workers

  This project aims to document the treatment and reactions to the treatment of the essential workers during this pandemic. This is the headline of an article describing The resignation of the VP of Amazon and also detailing a statement he made about Amazon firing workers who had protested their poor treatment during the pandemic.
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  04/23/2020

  Treatment of Essential Workers: Amazon Protests Continue

  This project aims to document the treatment and reactions to the treatment of the essential workers during this pandemic. This is the headline of an article describing more protests against the continuing poor treatment/lack of extra protections provided to Amazon workers
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  2020-04-20

  Treatment of Essential Workers: Amazon Skip Day

  This project aims to document the treatment and reactions to the treatment of the essential workers during this pandemic. This is the headline of an article describing A nationwide protest of Amazon workers where they are going to refuse to go into work, as a protest for the still poor working conditions and lacking benefits for the workers.
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  2020-04-18

  Treatment of Essential Workers: Pandemic Premium Pay Increase

  This project aims to document the treatment and reactions to the treatment of the essential workers during this pandemic. This is the headline of an article describing A proposed plan by the Senate Democrats which would increase the pay of essential workers who are more exposed to the virus during this pandemic
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  2020-04-14

  Treatment of Essential Workers: Amazon Employee Terminations

  This project aims to document the treatment and reactions to the treatment of the essential workers during this pandemic. This is the headline of an article describing The firing of Amazon workers who have been fired for speaking out against unfair treatment of workers during the pandemic.
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  2020-04-08

  Treatment of Essential Workers: Monitoring Capacity

  This project aims to document the treatment and reactions to the treatment of the essential workers during this pandemic. This is a picture my friend took outside of the store during her shift at a grocery store. It is very early in the morning, but there are still cars that can be seen in the parking lot and her job is to limit the amount of people in the store so that social distancing can be practiced, as well as making sure only one member per household is allowed in the store at one time so that more people are able to get groceries.
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  2020-04-09

  Treatment of Essential Workers: Fast Food Strike

  This project aims to document the treatment and reactions to the treatment of the essential workers during this pandemic. This is the headline of an article describing how fast food workers are outraged at the lack of benefits and protection of the virus that they are getting. This comes during a time when many other companies are providing pay for workers who can no longer go to work, while the workers considered essential are not given the same benefits but are at a higher risk to be exposed to the virus.
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  2020-04-07

  Treatment of Essential Workers: “Insulting Rewards”

  This project aims to document the treatment and reactions to the treatment of the essential workers during this pandemic. This image captures the headline of an article describing workers outrage at the “rewards” they are being given, such as free lunches. My friend works at a grocery store and has experienced this firsthand. No promise of bonuses, or sick leave, or extra protections for working during a pandemic, many are insulted that companies believe a free lunch may make up for the health risks these workers take everyday.
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  2020-04-07

  Treatment of Essential Workers: Target Walkout

  This project aims to document the treatment and reactions to the treatment of the essential workers during this pandemic. This image captures the headline of an article describing the frustration from the workers at Target not being given basic protective measures and planning a walkout in protest of the unfair conditions.
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  2020-04-06

  Treatment of Essential Workers: FedEx Workers

  This project aims to document the treatment and reactions to the treatment of the essential workers during this pandemic. This image captures the headline of an article describing the conflicting reports of treatment of the FedEx workers drawing attention to possibly unfair treatment during this pandemic.
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  2020-04-01

  Letter Writing In Support of Great Scott TEMPLATE

  Beloved Allston/Boston venue Great Scott was denied a lease renewal. People across the country have banded together to write to the venue's landlord offices. This template facilitates the process and may have increased the number of letters written.
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  2020-04-06

  Small Clubs Are Where Rock History Is Made. How Many Will Survive?

  "Independent venues are critical to local scenes and artists on the rise. With concerts on hold during the pandemic, they’re struggling to hang on and fighting for government aid."
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  2020-04-07

  Life Without Live (2, My relation to the story)

  On May 7th, Rolling Stone writer Rob Sheffield published a piece reminiscing on the time when it was okay to go to live music events. A section of the piece details Sheffield's last show before quarantine -- Control Top at Union Pool in Brooklyn. It was interesting to hear how much he enjoyed the show, since the company I work for worked really hard to book and promote it. I tweeted about the article from the company account and received very kind words back from Sheffield.
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  2020-04-07

  Life Without Live (1)

  "Like all fans of music, sports, movies, any kind of public ritual that involves a crowd, I keep thinking about the Last Time. For me, that was seeing the Philly punk trio Control Top on March 5th, at Union Pool in Brooklyn. The singer jumped into the crowd and tackled one of her friends. (The friend was the singer from Yohuna, whom I had tickets to see a few weeks later at Trans-Pecos.) They rolled on the floor, screaming into the mic together. I grabbed a snack at the taco truck between bands, wrote in my notebook for a while, hung out late to see friends and argue with the guitarist about the Hüsker Dü discography. I asked the singer about my favorite song, the one where I always think she’s screaming about strange chickens. (It’s really “Straight Jackets.”) It was a glorious Thursday night. But now it feels like a different planet."
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  2020-05-10

  Through Chinese Social Media -- 6

  The video talks about how the Chinese treat the patients with advanced Covid-19. It is a documentary report that shows every single detail through the treatment. It is a very touching video that lets me how the front line works.
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  2020-05-05

  Through Chinese Social Media -- 5

  I’m a study-abroad student. Due to the virus, I had to stay at my home in New York. I got the update of the virus through Chinese social media, and I think it is really interesting. I’m going to share some posts from Chinese social media about the virus. The post is about that one of the temporary hospitals is going to close, which means the hope is coming. Through the post, I feel the persistence of those front line fighters. There are plenty of touching stories in the post. One of them brings his daughter's doll to the front line. They are also others' wives, husbands, mothers, children. These medical staff came to the frontline at the risk of infection, and their families were also worried, proud, and worried about them from afar.
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  2020-05-10

  Through Chinese Social Media -- 4

  I’m a study-abroad student. Due to the virus, I had to stay at home in New York. I got the update of the virus through Chinese social media, and I think it is really interesting. I’m going to share some posts from Chinese social media about the virus. Those two weeks, China holds an online concert, “Believe in the Future,” steaming on the social media. It is the largest online concert in the Chinese music industry. The concert invited more than hundreds of celebrities to do cloud performance. The goal of the concert is to bring hope and heal the heart. There is no advertising and no copyright, all things free. The following is one recorded part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIeVt0vUpGM
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  2020-05-10

  Through Chinese Social Media -- 3

  I’m a study-abroad student. Due to the virus, I had to stay at my home in New York. I got the update of the virus through Chinese social media, and I think it is really interesting. I’m going to share some posts from Chinese social media about the virus. The post shares the current situation in the front lines. The photos in the post are so touching. Disease, urgency, risk, and death are the themes of twelve hours. People in the front line were trapped behind masks and face masks, breathing hard, causing them to feel severe headaches. Even though, they are still insisting on caring all the patients.
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  2020-05-09

  Through Chinese Social Media -- 2

  I’m a study-abroad student. Due to the virus, I had to stay at my home in New York. I got the update of the virus through Chinese social media, and I think it is really interesting. I’m going to share some posts from Chinese social media about the virus. During the time staying at home, I depend on food delivery. I want to say thank you for those people who are still working during this special moment. The post describes the restaurants donate the food to support people in the front line. All people are using their ways to support the community.
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  2020-05-27

  Signs From Around: #12, Washington Heights, NY

  "Signs From Around: #12, Washington Heights, NY" is part of a series exploring the signage surrounding COVID-19 from different parts of the world. Businesses make adjustments in hopes of staying open.
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  27/04/2020

  Signs From Around: #11, Bronx, NY

  "Signs From Around: #11, Bronx, NY" is part of a series exploring the signage surrounding COVID-19 from different parts of the world. COVID Testing Center
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  2020-04-26

  Signs From Around: #10, Washington Heights, NY

  "Signs From Around: #10, Washington Heights, NY" is part of a series exploring the signage surrounding COVID-19 from different parts of the world. Letting front line workers know we appreciate them! #FordhamUniversity #VART3030 #SignsFromAroundSeries
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  2020-03-27

  Signs From Around: #9, Portland, OR

  "Signs From Around: #9, Portland, OR" is part of a series exploring the signage surrounding COVID-19 from different parts of the world. Business owners give looters a heads up. #FordhamUniversity #VART3030 #SignsFromAroundSeries
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  2020-04-21

  Signs From Around: #8, Boston, MA

  "Signs From Around: #8, Boston, MA" is part of a series exploring the signage surrounding COVID-19 from different parts of the world. Stay at home be over. #FordhamUniversity #VART3030 #SignsFromAroundSeries
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  2020-04-12

  Signs From Around: #7, Montreal, Canada

  "Signs From Around: #7, Montreal, Canada" is part of a series exploring the signage surrounding COVID-19 from different parts of the world. A local business speaks for many in telling their customer's they're unsure....
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  2020-04-09

  Signs From Around: #6, Philadelphia, PA

  "Signs From Around: #6, Philadelphia, PA" is part of a series exploring the signage surrounding COVID-19 from different parts of the world. Local restaurant works around social distancing.
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  2020-03-20

  Signs From Around: #5, Harlem, NY

  "Signs From Around: #5, Harlem, NY" is part of a series exploring the signage surrounding COVID-19 from different parts of the world. Local businesses get ready for closure.
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  2020-04-22

  FLOW for Frontliners

  This is a video landscape about myself as a student community organizer using his platform to do his part to give back to those who give so much to us, the Frontliners. VART3030
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  2020-04-12

  Sign Series #42

  This is part of a series exploring the role of language, typography and design in informing the general public. #FordhamUniversity #VART3030 #SignSeries
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  2020-04-12

  Sign Series #41

  This is part of a series exploring the role of language, typography and design in informing the general public. #FordhamUniversity #VART3030 #SignSeries
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  2020-04-13

  Sign Series #40

  This is part of a series exploring the role of language, typography and design in informing the general public. #FordhamUniversity #VART3030 #SignSeries
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  2020-04-19

  Sign Series #39

  This is part of a series exploring the role of language, typography and design in informing the general public. #FordhamUniversity #VART3030 #SignSeries
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  2020-04-12

  Sign Series #38

  This is part of a series exploring the role of language, typography and design in informing the general public. #FordhamUniversity #VART3030 #SignSeries
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  2020-04-08

  Rainbow Series #41

  #friendswhogive was started to teach my children that GIVING to others can be just as rewarding as receiving, especially at the Holiday time."- Denise Heckelman, Founder #friendswhogive organized a "rainbow hunt" for kids. Families can post drawings of rainbows in their window and as children walk and bike ride around they can count how many rainbows they pass along the way. #FordhamUniversity #VART3030 #RainbowSeries
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  2020-03-05

  Through Chinese Social Media - 1

  I’m a study-abroad student. Due to the virus, I had to stay in New York. I got the update of the virus through Chinese social media, and I think it is really interesting. I’m going to share some posts from Chinese social media about the virus. As the most serious affected city, New York no longer being chaos. Citizens all stay at home and keep the social distancing. In the meantime, some of them figure out the way to relax. The boy sits on the roof, holding the guitar quietly, enjoy the blowing the wind, feeling the silent city, completely immersed in his own music world.
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  2020-05-01

  My purchase from one of Bandcamp's fee-waived fridays

  Today (5/1/20), bandcamp.com is waiving all of its revenue so all money from purchases will go directly to artists. Bandcamp is a music-sharing platform where artists or labels can directly upload music for purchase. Today, I purchased a compilation of B-sides, demos, and covers from a bunch of musicians. The compilation is called "The Song is Coming from Inside the House" and all proceeds will go to the Groundswell Rapid Response Fund which provides fast funding to grassroots organizations led by women of color, trans people of color, and low-income women and trans people in critical, but unexpected, fights to protect and advance reproductive and social justice, including mutual aid societies, rent moratoriums, and digital organizing.
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  2020-04-21

  Notes From an Essential Worker Series #5

  The COVID-19 virus disrupts life, particularly our relationships with those we love. But, relationships are flexible and adapt to circumstance. My mom cut my hair until I left for college. Her grandfather was a barber, and because she cut my brothers' hair, too, she had a lot of practice. After COVID-19 closed our schools and sent us home, my mom cuts our hair again. On her note, she let us know that she had time to cut our hair today after work. Although COVID-19 has closed the barbers down, my brothers and I still have fresh cuts. #FordhamUniversity #VART3030
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  2020-04-28

  Notes From an Essential Worker Series #4

  The COVID-19 virus disrupts life, particularly our relationships with those we love. But, relationships are flexible and adapt to circumstance. My mom wrote my dad this sign before his big meeting with a German client overseas. He had been under a lot of stress preparing for the meeting, so my mom put this note of encouragement on his office door to let him know she was thinking about him. Although she could not wish him luck in person because she works such long hours now, she still found a way to be there for him. #FordhamUniversity #VART3030
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  2020-04-27

  Window Series #12

  In mid-march my school transitioned to virtual classes and sent everyone home for the semester. I've mostly been at home in Manhattan since then; the last time I rode the subway, previously a daily occurrence, was over six weeks ago now. At home and in the neighborhood nearby since then, I feel as though I can look out the window onto a previous version of myself that could not have anticipated any of this. I also feel as though I look at myself now through a window, because after over a month, this all still feels fake in a way. It’s as though time has been suspended and I’m watching myself filling that time that “doesn’t count.” There is a numbness that comes with not being able to do any of what we’re used to and not being able to see people who we thought nothing of seeing every day in the past. The window analogy is both a way of conceptualizing but also deliberately engaging in that numbness and removing oneself from the reality of the situation, perhaps on both a personal and global level. It’s also a way of rebuilding the wall that has been breached by collision of home with the spaces that are normally outside of it, like work and school, and are now part of the same physical setting, albeit digitally. This has made me think a lot about windows, which are everywhere in New York, and so I started to take pictures of windows in buildings I passed while going for walks. The windows themselves all look similar; despite differences in architectural style, they are all in essence the same glass barrier between inside and outside and public and private. It’s not something specific to life in a pandemic, but during this time it is especially relevant because for people staying mostly at home, our windows are potentially the only glimpse of the outside that we’ll see in a day. They divide our former lives and everything that we’d normally be doing outside of home from our current lives that have suspended many of those activities and digitized others. It’s easier to think about these private separate lives going on behind the windows I pass when there are fewer people out on the street. Normally the act of passing people as I walk is more engaging than what I can’t see in the closed-off apartment buildings, but now there is not a lot going on in the streets. It’s interesting to think I’m probably closer in distance to people behind the walls of the ground floors of buildings than the people I can see on the street, especially on the less busy streets that are particularly empty these days.
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  2020-04-27

  Window Series #10

  In mid-march my school transitioned to virtual classes and sent everyone home for the semester. I've mostly been at home in Manhattan since then; the last time I rode the subway, previously a daily occurrence, was over six weeks ago now. At home and in the neighborhood nearby since then, I feel as though I can look out the window onto a previous version of myself that could not have anticipated any of this. I also feel as though I look at myself now through a window, because after over a month, this all still feels fake in a way. It’s as though time has been suspended and I’m watching myself filling that time that “doesn’t count.” There is a numbness that comes with not being able to do any of what we’re used to and not being able to see people who we thought nothing of seeing every day in the past. The window analogy is both a way of conceptualizing but also deliberately engaging in that numbness and removing oneself from the reality of the situation, perhaps on both a personal and global level. It’s also a way of rebuilding the wall that has been breached by collision of home with the spaces that are normally outside of it, like work and school, and are now part of the same physical setting, albeit digitally. This has made me think a lot about windows, which are everywhere in New York, and so I started to take pictures of windows in buildings I passed while going for walks. The windows themselves all look similar; despite differences in architectural style, they are all in essence the same glass barrier between inside and outside and public and private. It’s not something specific to life in a pandemic, but during this time it is especially relevant because for people staying mostly at home, our windows are potentially the only glimpse of the outside that we’ll see in a day. They divide our former lives and everything that we’d normally be doing outside of home from our current lives that have suspended many of those activities and digitized others. It’s easier to think about these private separate lives going on behind the windows I pass when there are fewer people out on the street. Normally the act of passing people as I walk is more engaging than what I can’t see in the closed-off apartment buildings, but now there is not a lot going on in the streets. It’s interesting to think I’m probably closer in distance to people behind the walls of the ground floors of buildings than the people I can see on the street, especially on the less busy streets that are particularly empty these days.
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  2020-04-27

  Window Series #9

  In mid-march my school transitioned to virtual classes and sent everyone home for the semester. I've mostly been at home in Manhattan since then; the last time I rode the subway, previously a daily occurrence, was over six weeks ago now. At home and in the neighborhood nearby since then, I feel as though I can look out the window onto a previous version of myself that could not have anticipated any of this. I also feel as though I look at myself now through a window, because after over a month, this all still feels fake in a way. It’s as though time has been suspended and I’m watching myself filling that time that “doesn’t count.” There is a numbness that comes with not being able to do any of what we’re used to and not being able to see people who we thought nothing of seeing every day in the past. The window analogy is both a way of conceptualizing but also deliberately engaging in that numbness and removing oneself from the reality of the situation, perhaps on both a personal and global level. It’s also a way of rebuilding the wall that has been breached by collision of home with the spaces that are normally outside of it, like work and school, and are now part of the same physical setting, albeit digitally. This has made me think a lot about windows, which are everywhere in New York, and so I started to take pictures of windows in buildings I passed while going for walks. The windows themselves all look similar; despite differences in architectural style, they are all in essence the same glass barrier between inside and outside and public and private. It’s not something specific to life in a pandemic, but during this time it is especially relevant because for people staying mostly at home, our windows are potentially the only glimpse of the outside that we’ll see in a day. They divide our former lives and everything that we’d normally be doing outside of home from our current lives that have suspended many of those activities and digitized others. It’s easier to think about these private separate lives going on behind the windows I pass when there are fewer people out on the street. Normally the act of passing people as I walk is more engaging than what I can’t see in the closed-off apartment buildings, but now there is not a lot going on in the streets. It’s interesting to think I’m probably closer in distance to people behind the walls of the ground floors of buildings than the people I can see on the street, especially on the less busy streets that are particularly empty these days.